Re:What if mega-rich people could buy places on clinical tri...
by peteretep on Sunday November 02, 2014 @08:04AM
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> If poor people were given preference in terms of going
> on drug trials, would the same groups be up in arms
> about the poor being used as guinea pigs for the rich?
> What if the first doses of the drug — which had never
> been used in people and had not even finished the
> typical animal safety testing — had been given to
> African patients instead?
> “It would have been the front-page screaming headline:
> ‘Africans used as guinea pigs for American drug
> company’s medicine,’ ” said Dr. Salim S. Abdool Karim,
> director of Caprisa, an AIDS research center in South
> Africa.
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Re:What if mega-rich people could buy places on clinical tri...
by Alex3917 on Sunday November 02, 2014 @08:08AM
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> If poor people were given preference in terms of going on drug trials, would the same groups be up in arms about the poor being used as guinea pigs for the rich?
That's already how most drugs are currently tested. We used to test new drugs on prisoners and conscientious objectors, now we just test them on the poor and indigent.
It's a shame that autocomplete can still elicit laughs.
I like to think about it in another way: If poor people were given preference in terms of going on drug trials, would the same groups be up in arms about the poor being used as guinea pigs for the rich?